Hampden Superior Court Judge David Hodge found there was "no legal or logical support" for allegations of conflict of interest tied to the $2 billion redevelopment of the courthouse in Springfield.

"No other institutional reform we know of—short of making voting compulsory—comes anywhere close to having this kind of impact on turnout,” says the University of Chicago's Center for Effective Government of aligning local and national elections.  

We all need care as we age. Adam Scott leads New England’s largest nonprofit provider of senior care and living communities. He says demand is rising as the Commonwealth’s average age continues to increase. This week on Health or Consequences, John McDonough of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute talk with Scott about how the broader health care crisis is impacting long-term care.

At precisely the age when young people are still figuring out who they are, an algorithm optimized for engagement should not be shaping the possibilities.

Massachusetts is "facing a behavioral health access crisis," says a May report from the Health Policy Commission's Behavioral Health Workforce Center.

Hoffer was chosen for the new position after holding several high-powered roles in climate policy, serving under then-AG Healey before working at the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and then moving back to the Bay State to link up with Healey again under this newly crafted role.

“The bottom line is the issues before the United States Supreme Court would only affect the general [federal] election," said Secretary of State William Galvin.

Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll announced the second tranche of commercial conversion credits, established through the 2024 Affordable Homes Act.

If the evidence that he deserves a second term exists, Hayden should produce it. The jurors — Suffolk County voters — deserve to see it before they deliberate. 

A landmark agreement both reshapes Instagram and Facebook for teenagers, and adds fuel to legislative debate about permanent reforms.

Paulino faces eight counts of wire fraud and three counts of unlawful monetary transactions.

Uncertainty driven by macroeconomic, geopolitical, and instability in federal policy has now surpassed affordability as the top concern facing Roundtable members – leaders of some of the largest employers across Massachusetts.

The governor's office shared new guidance for how Massachusetts schools and child care centers should handle federal immigration enforcement.

The question is whether, in the end, it’s more of a mundane municipal reorganization or a sign of retreat in Newton, one of the state’s most climate-forward communities.

O'Brien's lawsuit, filed Thursday in Suffolk County Superior Court, rehashes a two-year-long legal battle between her and Goldberg that highlighted internal strife within the CCC.

Massachusetts voters will decide in November whether to make big changes to the state's primary elections. But it's not a first-in-the-nation experiment: several other states, including California, already have similar systems in which all candidates appear on the same primary ballot and the top two advance to the general election, even if they're from the same party. This week on The Codcast, Chris Lisinski interviews Andrew Sinclair, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California about how the Golden State's primary framework came to be, what the effects have been, and what lessons Massachusetts might take.

In order to be sure our state's new literacy legislation has the most impact on our students, we need to ensure that we have the same laser focus on teacher training that this bill has brought to our students.

City officials cheered that the stadium project will now move ahead without delay, while opponents said the Supreme Judicial Court decision allowing construction to continue does not resolve their concerns about the stadium's size, cost, private use, and impact on the surrounding park and neighborhoods.

This November, Massachusetts voters can decide whether our elections are working for them, or whether they are mostly working for the people already in power.

As voters this election cycle weigh ballot questions allowing people to register and vote on Election Day, and substituting an all-party primary in for the traditional party-based primaries, early in-person voting remains an enduring and often utilized election reform in Massachusetts.

The statues will be kept in storage and off the building while litigation continues at the lower court level. The visages of a winged Michael and towering Florian extinguishing fire await further judgment, but the ruling signals a rough legal road ahead for Quincy.

“It’s not that our current system is good. It’s that this alternate one is worse,” says Jonathan Cohn, policy director for Progressive Mass.

Members of the Family Child Care Chapter of SEIU Local 509 called on lawmakers to raise reimbursement rates for child care providers who care for kids who are eligible for financial assistance.

In a unanimous decision Wednesday, the SJC declared the collection of conservationists and residents did not have standing to block the project.

The pushback comes as Democrats on Beacon Hill are on the cusp of a long-sought breakthrough to rein in what critics contend are shady energy companies that rip off unwitting customers.